Not holding up my end of the bargain, lately. I have not even written in my lab notebook, the days have been so full. They start slow enough – I check in on NN and similar sites usually during morning coffee – but then the phone starts ringing, the students start asking questions, the e-mail stack I whittled down starts to accumulate new additions, and the cell media need to be changed. When I emerge from the tissue culture room, it’s well on the way toward lunchtime. Then my U.S. colleagues start in…
(Couple of paragraphs now transferred over to lab notebook entry)
For fun and entertainment, head on over to examine Robert Lanham’s INTERNET-AGE WRITING SYLLABUS AND COURSE OVERVIEW , upon which I stumbled thanks to following links starting here. I’ve signed up for fall semester and I’m sure you will all notice a great improvement in my posts in 2010.
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Updated natter: Raised eyebrows about the enormous reorganization at Scientific American.
What message is Macmillan sending the public by this highly conspicuous shakeup among the ranks of such a venerable and (I thought) widely read journal? I find the quote from the publisher particularly striking and somewhat alarming: “‘Scientific American will be a wholly owned and operated separate entity within the Nature Publishing Group,’ says Brandfon. ‘What we’re basically envisioning is the dominant science innovation media company.’”
Now what does that mean?
The Lanham piece is brilliant. I suspect that some bloggers have already taken the course.
Lanham’s article is wonderful. I particularly liked:
Where do I sign up? ;-)